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The guidelines for notability state: "The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in his or her specific field." In the specific field of astronomy, this astronomer has discovered several asteroids and supernovae, and these discoveries are now in the permanent astronomical record (journals and the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC) asteroid lists). The problem is defining what is meant by "widely recognised". No astronomer would deny he's a minor planet and supernova discoverer, since no astronomer would deny the validity of the MPC data entries. This falls in a gray zone. [[User:Urhixidur|Urhixidur]] ([[User talk:Urhixidur|talk]]) 15:20, 8 January 2010 (UTC) |
The guidelines for notability state: "The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in his or her specific field." In the specific field of astronomy, this astronomer has discovered several asteroids and supernovae, and these discoveries are now in the permanent astronomical record (journals and the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC) asteroid lists). The problem is defining what is meant by "widely recognised". No astronomer would deny he's a minor planet and supernova discoverer, since no astronomer would deny the validity of the MPC data entries. This falls in a gray zone. [[User:Urhixidur|Urhixidur]] ([[User talk:Urhixidur|talk]]) 15:20, 8 January 2010 (UTC) |
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*# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996AAN...225....1M |
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*# http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310209 (wherein we can read "SN 1997ei was discovered by Masakatsu Aoki (Nakano, Aoki 1997) in NGC 3963.") |
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: More hits can be obtained by [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/basic_connect?qsearch=%22M.+Aoki%22&version=1 searching the NASA ADS for "M. Aoki"], although these are intertwined with at least one other M. Aoki's publications (a particle physicist). |
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Non-notable amateur astronomer. I can't find any references supporting notability. PDCook (talk) 14:45, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That's the intent. Regardless of whether this stub meets the criteria for notability or not, I believe grouping stubs into an article like List of miscellaneous minor planet discoverers is the way to go.
The guidelines for notability state: "The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in his or her specific field." In the specific field of astronomy, this astronomer has discovered several asteroids and supernovae, and these discoveries are now in the permanent astronomical record (journals and the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC) asteroid lists). The problem is defining what is meant by "widely recognised". No astronomer would deny he's a minor planet and supernova discoverer, since no astronomer would deny the validity of the MPC data entries. This falls in a gray zone. Urhixidur (talk) 15:20, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
